UConn football coach reinstated

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT), Brian Koonz THE NEWS-TIMES

Published 1:00 am, Friday, April 14, 2006

STORRS - UConn assistant football coach Terry Richardson was reinstated Thursday, eight days after he appeared in Danielson Superior Court on charges of risk of injury to a minor and second-degree assault.

Richardson, the team's running backs coach, had been on paid administrative leave from the university.

"There will be no further comment by anyone at the
University of Connecticut
on this issue as it is a personnel matter," school officials wrote in a terse statement.

Richardson, 34, was arrested last February in Willimanatic, after police responded to a call involving an unnamed minor at Richardson's home.

As part of his hearing last week, Richardson enrolled in a domestic violence education program.

If Richardson successfully completes the state's Family Violence Education Program, he is eligible to have the charges dropped.